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by tpoacher 6mo ago
That's still not "archiving" though. It's one thing to download the installer, and quite another to install the game and copy the files hoping it will all still work. Especially on windows when registry entries are invol
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by tpoacher 6mo ago
I agree, but it's still frustrating. There are a lot of red flags / contradictions in the post above which are typical of such debates. E.g. > Java is a resource hog when you use patterns and libraries popular in Java land Whic
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by tpoacher 6mo ago
"Here you go my brother in Christ, the recipe for meth. May it be blessed, amen."
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by tpoacher 6mo ago
> using SpringBoot well there's your answer, isn't it?
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by tpoacher 6mo ago
meetings are a tool, and when used properly, an indispensible one at that. meetings bloody meetings by John Cleese is an absolute must-watch for conducting great meetings. however, if all you have is a hammer, then every problem looks like
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by tpoacher 6mo ago
Whenever I hear people talk about meetings and / or (internal / arbitrary) deadlines as a scheduling / productivity tool, I can't shake the thought these people have probably never even heard of concepts like schedulin
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by tpoacher 6mo ago
i'll try this next time i'm on my laptop, but for now, how does it compare to visidata (which is a long standing peoject already?)
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by tpoacher 6mo ago
Not something I've (yet) pursued, buy I did wonder a few days back if there was a good analogy between context window and short term memory, and storage with long term memory, and if so might an anki-like algorithm lead to better conte
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by tpoacher 6mo ago
so, what you're saying is that we can definitely expect this metric to be used to make hiring / firing decisions then
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by tpoacher 6mo ago
not to be confused with armadildo, naturally
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by tpoacher 6mo ago
Based on my experience of the field, I very much challenge that assumption.
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by tpoacher 6mo ago
Indeed. This is the "Embrace" stage.
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by tpoacher 6mo ago
The "I did X because you seemed Y" bit reminded me one of the negative patterns from the "nin-violent communication" book. I wonder if the "non-violent communication" approach can be used here too somehiw to ad
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by tpoacher 6mo ago
Weeeellll, teeeechnically, I didn't say "technically correct", I said "technically right". (just kidding xD)
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by tpoacher 6mo ago
You're technically right, but what things are versus how they're promoted or understood by most people (rightfully or not) often diverges, and therefore such "grounding" articles are useful, even if the wording addresses
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by tpoacher 6mo ago
> Skills are great for pure knowledge and teaching an LLM how to use an existing tool. But for giving an LLM actual access to services, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) is the far superior, more pragmatic architectural choice. There&#x27
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by tpoacher 7mo ago
I have something somewhat similar here: https://git.sr.ht/~tpapastylianou/misc-updater The main difference is I initially only needed a mechanism to check if my "Manually-Installed or Source -Compiled" (MISC)
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by tpoacher 7mo ago
Add the LLM to your makefile then :p target: llm command "Install X for me." (PS. I don't even know if I'm joking anymore)
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by tpoacher 7mo ago
I get the point you're making, but to be clear, "they’re checking to see if you’re a Muslim" vs "they’re checking to see if your fingerprint matches that of known Muslims in our ever-expanding database" are not too
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by tpoacher 7mo ago
You really should stop using LLMs to write messages complaining about LLM use though. (the "it depends" and the hyphen-as-emdash were dead giveaways). /s
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by tpoacher 7mo ago
Can we do a satirical thread here please? I'm curious what HN can come up with :D I'll start: Linux : trash-empty windows equivalent: format C: Linux : sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
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by tpoacher 7mo ago
Reminds me of the classic Mark Twain quote: "Apologies, I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one."
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by tpoacher 7mo ago
"Made with Slop" is the equivalent of "Made in China" (in the olden derogatory sense). Just because one falls in the "Cha bu duo" camp and (potentially) looks down on the "Kaizen" types doesn't m
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by tpoacher 7mo ago
"I totally get a kick out of the peeps who find the writeup super helpful yet are totally put off by that distinct "AI smell"—it’s like they can't even! Just imagine when everything we value is woven into a tapestry of t
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by tpoacher 7mo ago
A thinking screwdriver: "You know what ... screw this."
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by tpoacher 7mo ago
Personal/Private Message. It's how Prime Ministers and Project Managers prefer to abbreviate it. Especially in the afternoon (Post Meridiem). Particularly Meaningful if it relates to Project Management or Post Mortems.
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by tpoacher 7mo ago
on one hand you're not wrong on the other, I really, really loved my original jolla phone back in the day. I happily used it as my daily driver and only phone for 2 years. Until it had a hardware fault which I could no longer repair
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by tpoacher 8mo ago
I want to know more. Can you give an example? :D
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by tpoacher 8mo ago
Yes. Or, "Prototypes have a bad habit of becoming the product".
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by tpoacher 8mo ago
and mypy is "an optional static type checker for Python" [0] Given that both pypy (through RPython) and mypy deal with static type checks in some sense, I kept confusing the two projects until recently. Also, I just learnt (from a

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